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Fanbinding - Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know

This is my last round of experimenting with bamboo strips, for now at least. For these books, I used bamboo for the spine, and attached them to hard boards for the cover. The string going through the cover boards follows the look of a stab binding, but doesn't actually go through the pages. Instead, the folded pages are sewn to the strings on the spine with a narrower thread, in a variation of the secret Belgian/crisscross bindind. The spine ends up being very flexible; it can lie flat or even fold all the way backwards, and although it ends up feeling kind of "loose," it's actually pretty sturdy. I made a box for the set to give them some more stability when sitting on my bookshelf.

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know features a couple of plot-relevant books, so I thought it made sense to use with a binding method that called attention to itself. Many thanks to @spockandawe for letting me use your typeset!

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Bound: The Ordeal of Being Known and The Rewards of Being Loved by louisfake

I bound these for the @renegadeguild exchange. I'm quite happy with how they came out, except there was a little bit of glue strikethrough on the covers. I made the bookcloth, and I think the quilting cotton I used was just a little too thin. But I had very specific colors in mind, and while it's frustrating, I don't think it ruined them.

The HTV is a really lovely holographic silver that was I think the Joann's store brand, so it was cheap, yay! And wasn't as nightmarish to work with as other HTV tends to be.

The Ordeal bind has flowers in the typeset, specifically different images of narcissus blossoms for each chapter header.

The Rewards bind has a simpler typeset (it was a bonus bind anyway, so I justified it that way.) (But really I just couldn't think of a theme for graphics.) (Let's just call it "elegant.")

I also sewed the endbands for these, and I'm happy with how they came out, but man, I still struggle with them. But I have a bunch of spools of silk thread, so I guess I'd better stick with it.

The endpapers are my beloved Ink Drops by Craft Consortium, these are in the Midnight colorway.

Fonts used:

Body: Arno Pro Harry's thoughts: Skippy Sharp Pro Letter from Narcissa: P22 Hopper Josephine Letter from Kingsley: P22 Typewriter Chapter headers: DrSugiyama Pro Cover: Transat and Charcuterie Catchwords

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Belatedly finished Christmas gift for my father: a dos-à-dos binding of the communist manifesto, German on one side and English on the other. (Finished it a few days ago, but metaphorically that's in time for binderary, no?)

The spine is self-made salmon skin leather; skinned, cleaned, fleshed and tanned with oak galls, then dyed with the natural red dye called lac. I ended up screwing up a few things with the oak gall tanning, making some of the dye uptake a bit patchy, plus the skins had lived in the freezer not folded properly and a bit longer before tanning then I hoped, but it ended up okay and functional nevertheless. I was very excited to incorporate it into the binding (also with another of the red salmon skins I made a wallet out of, for myself).

The dos-à-dos binding style was really fun, and I intend to another, also with fish skin leather!

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oh yeah! i can also finally post the book i made for the 2024 renegade exchange! i bound "blackbird" by emungere for tiffo of fanbound books ^w^ i am honestly kind of obsessed with this fic now, lol. really pleased with how the spattered edges turned out, too, that was the first time i did those on a book :3 and i had fun with all the velvet textures too hehe

anyway here's the fic: Blackbird - emungere ITS SO GOOD YOU SHOULD READ IT (if you like hannibal fic, obvs)

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BINDERARY 2025 HAS BEGUN 🎉

binderary has begun, so i'm back! where have i been for the past few months? don't worry about it! i'm here now and i have made a bajillion tiny books. these are all letter octavos that i cased in yesterday for the first day of binderary. i'll post more detailed individual photos later, don't worry.

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Separation by @dol--blathanna was the book I bound in this year’s annual Renegade Exchange! It’s a modern AU of The Witcher, and it was a delight to typeset and bind. I used red moire for the cover with gold, black, and white foil for decorations. This was my first attempt at cloth jointed endpapers, which I really love as a technique.

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To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by @/mollyxchang

Paperback-to-hardcover recasing, done for @/bookbindingvan #yearofthesnakeexchange. This recasing has found its new home with @/soloistartist <3

Funny story, I started with the dust jacket illustration first, my plan was to get it printed on cloth and used it as a wrap cover for the book. But then I went back to the exchange info and realized it wasn't aligning with the exchange instruction. But by the time the art was already 50% done so I finished it and then whipped out a hardcover design inspired by red envelopes.

Backside features 福 upside down.

福(fú) means good fortune, blessing, and is usually displayed upside down at the door. That's because when you see it upside down, you say 福倒了(Fú dàole), which sounds like for 福到了(Fú dàole), good fortune has arrived.

Happy Lunar New Year 🧧🐍.

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Fanbinding: The Devil in Us All

I joined @renegadeguild 's annual bound books exchange this year, wherein participants create a hand-bound book out of a fic or public domain work of their giftee's choosing. One of my giftee's choices caught my eye immediately with its summary description of double-sided unrequited pining, identity shenanigans, and Steve discovering that he is into kink while moonlighting as an artist for a BDSM magazine in order to make ends meet. Now that both giftee and author @sineala have received their copies, I'm pleased to share pictures of my creation.

Duo bookcloth in Blue Jean, with red foil applied using my trusty foil quill. Since Steve's initial moment of self- discovery involves a loving description of someone (who is definitely not Tony Stark, what are you talking about?) tied up, I leaned hard into the rope theme while designing this bind.

Red marbled lokta for the endpapers and Oxford hollow felt like the kinky underclothes to the subtle outerwear of "but we're just friends and teammates, and that's all we'll ever be."

I set both the text and the title in Lora, a typeface that feels modern and readable on the book page, with interesting asymmetrical details on the serifs at larger sizes.

Titles and drop caps were set in Ropest, which out of all the rope-themed typefaces I tried managed to strike a balance of elegance and readability while still being notably rope-looking.

Once I finished the two full-size copies, I decided I wanted a copy of my own after all, but didn't have enough of the red lokta left for full-size endpapers. I ended up shrinking down the typeset to fit a letter-octavo page instead of half-letter and am quite pleased with my bitty book, though the text is small enough that it won't be particularly legible when my eyes get older. It's such a satisfying size to hold in the hand.

The Devil in Us All is free to read on Ao3.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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I Will Not Burn | Croik

[ID: Six photographs of a hand-bound book of the fic I WIll Not Burn by Croik. The first photo shows the cover of the book, photographed so the spine and front cover can both be seen. The spine has faux raised cords outlined in red foil, as well as the title, author name, and a swirl graphic in red foil. The cover has the title and author name foiled vertically below a red foiled tentacle graphic. The second photo shows the top of the book, showing off red and black endbands and red and black speckled edges. The third photo shows the title page of the book, with the title and author name in a rectangle in the middle of a tentacle graphic. The fourth photo shows a section header page of the book, with the name of the fic in a rectangle atop a picture of black smoke. The fifth photo shows a chapter header page of the book for chapter fourteen, with a red foiled swirl graphic next to the word "fourteen" in all caps and the chapter text beneath it. The sixth photo shows a text spread of the book, with a bookmark resting atop it. The bookmark shows black and white artwork of various scenes from the fic, outlined in red foil. /End ID]

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Last year for Fandom Trumps Hate, @threearmsally requested a copy of @croik's wonderful Malevolent/Arkham Horror crossover series, which includes the longfic I Will Not Burn along with some accompanying oneshots. It ended up being the thickest (and heaviest) book I've bound to date, and I styled it after old leather binds, with faux raised cords and a faux black leather cover. The red foil was a bit temperamental, but I'm so happy with how it turned out, and I learned a new method for applying hot stamp foil to the inside of a book involving glue pens! There's a ton of artwork by some extremely talented artists featured in this bind as well (not pictured here), and it's always a joy to be able to include that in the books I make. The bookmark art shown here is by @shibara - here's their post with the artwork!

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🌹Rose Serpent Press Overview 2024🐍

Happy new year! Yearly overview stats and links to the posts below:

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I’ve been binding, but a few of the books are for secret exchanges so I can’t share them yet. But I just finished a rebind for my sister of the second book in Sharon Shinn’s excellent Samaria series, Jovah’s Angel.

I did the first book in the series about a year ago, and I’ll do the third book later this week or next. This is Cornflower Colibri with silver and black hot stamp foil. Endpapers and endbands are made from Italian marbled paper. Edges are painted with high flow acrylic with a little silver speckling.

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2024 Renegade Bindery Bound Fic Exchange

Bind #2 - Complicated Creation

This was my first year participating in @renegadeguild's annual gift exchange, and I ended up choosing to bind two fics for my giftee @grimmauldplacepublishing.

The second book I bound was Complicated Creation by Elemental (@elementalsight)

I absolutely love how the chrome vinyl turned out on the covers - even if it was incredibly frustrating to weed the design. WORTH IT.

The endbands are custom dyed linen thread to coordinate with the bookcloth, and the edges were inked and then speckled with a thin, silver acrylic for a very subtle shimmer and speckled effect. The end pages were custom speckled as well with a trio of coordinating purple inks.

Additionally, I did a custom drawing for the fic of a stylized nine-tailed fox. It's featured on both the title page and in the text when Tamamo-no-Mae is introduced.

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2024 Renegade Bindery Bound Fic Exchange

Bind #1 - Away Childish Things

This was my first year participating in @renegadeguild's gift exchange, and I ended up choosing to bind two fics for my giftee @grimmauldplacepublishing.

The first book I bound was Away Childish Things by letterred (@letteredlettered)

I opted for a simpler, more understated cover design on this one. This was my first time working with a faux-leather fabric and I'm really happy with how cleanly it turned out for the spine.

Both of my binds for the exchange feature a bookmark that goes from bottom to top so that the charm can be dangled and visible down the spine of the book, even while stored on a shelf without hanging off the bottom of the shelf. Additionally, this bind features speckled edges using a dark green ink that has a metallic gold shimmer. That shimmer is almost impossible to capture on camera, unfortunately. The ink in question is: J. Herbin 1670 Emerald de Chivor

The endpages were custom paste papers made with metalic ink and silver acrylic mixed in for a subtle, green and silver combo to compliment the more minimalist design of the overall book.

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2024 Renegade Bindery Bound Fic Exchange - Book 2

The second book I made for @zinder-fox was It's Time For Another Good Idea, Bad Idea by Haurvatat

I was inspired by a couple cookbooks when creating the design.

This is a Solo Leveling fic that features a less common pairing. Anyone that likes the novel's Jin Woo more than the webtoon or animes potrayal will enjoy this fic.

I also did custom French double core endbands for this fic. Here is attempt #2

Hope you enjoy the books @zinder-fox

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2024 Renegade Bindery Bound Fic Exchange - Book 1

This year I participated in the Bound fic exchange with @renegadeguild

I ending up binding and all i loved, i loved alone by @featherxs for @zinder-fox

It was a Bungou Stray Dogs fic which incorporated element of Edgar Allan Poes real life.

For the theme, I went with a Gothic style and made individually chapter titles.

For the end papers, I took quotes from the real Edgar Allan Poes writing and printed it out on black card stock and used some red toner activated foil

I tried a new skill and sowed on a French double core headband for the first time.

Also.painted the edges a dark red.

The cover design was made by me on Canva. All images used throughout the typeset were also found on Canva.

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My 2024 Renegade Bindery Bound Fic Exchange book, Howl's Twisted Castle by Winrywieldswrenches!

Details under the cut.

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ficbinding archive: Head Over Feet / The Love Hypothesis

the story head over feet by ever-so-reylo published 2021 as The Love Hypothesis

fandom: Star Wars / Reylo

archive notes i found the original fanart of what became the title image as well as several saved tweets, manips and moodboards highlighted by the author in their chapter notes. most importantly--the chapter notes. the author writes often about how they are finding their way through the story and include a lot of insecurities about it and thanks for the growing support. includes AO3 metadata.

the binding:

churchpaper warm white 24# paper

rounded and backed casebinding

oxford hollow spine

all interior text rendered in alegreya

dubletta bookcloth

siser HTV glitter titles

made endbands sewn over piping

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